Several problems, bugs, glitches (potentially mod-related), Far Harbor & Automatron DLCs

[DansonDelta40]

Hey there, people!

 

I've run into several gamebreaking problems with my current game, and I am not entirely sure how to fix them - or if they are at all fixable.

 

Three major problems have come up which made progressing the game impossible for me:

 

1st one:

 

When playing Far Harcor DLC, upon turning in the quests for Small Bertha and Mitch, both questlines would not conclude/continue. Small Bertha told me to clear out a potential settlement and report back. Upon reporting back she greets me with generic one-liners. I cannot enter dialogue with her. The quest tells me to talk to her, but I cannot.

 

I brought Mitch's dad back to him, and when I return to Mitch, the dialogue between his dad, me and Mitch plays until the end, but I receive no reward and the quest does not conclude, either. After a while the whole dialogue goes into a loop and Mitch's dad starts saying the same again. I can play through the whole dialogue endlessly but never reach the end of the quest.

 

2nd issue:

 

After liberating the settlement for Small Bertha I went back there and wanted to build. Building works fine, but I cannot assign settlers to anything. Not even to harvest food. They simply won't do it. The message "resource assigned" never appears, and the settler never enters interaction with the object. I also cannot trade with any of the settlers present.

 

Back in my old mainland settlements, I can still trade with settlers who are already there, but I also cannot assign them to any other tasks.

 

3rd issue:

 

When doing the Automatron quest with Ada, I was able to loot the radio beacon from the robobrain, but now the quest tells me to build a robot workbench at Red Rocket Truck Stop. Only, when I do build it, the quest does not recognize me doing so and remains stuck. No new dialogue with Ada is available. I can build robots, but not continue the quest. The radio beacon is unavailable as modification for Ada.

 

I will attach a file showing my whole mod collection. I read about issues similar to mine on consoles without mods, but maybe one of my mods caused this mess and I simply don't know which one.

 

Also: I don't know if this is related, but I recently tested two mods that turned out to be non-functional, so I deinstalled them again. After deinstalling my old save would crash to desktop upon loading, so I researched how to fix this issue. I used the Fallout 4 savegame editor to remove the entries for the mod plugins I had deinstalled from the savegame data and make it a clean save again.

 

Maybe using the editor screwed up my savegame?

 

If anybody here can give me some insight into what is wrong with my game, I will be very grateful!

 

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2016 by DansonDelta40

[JimmyRJump]

Best thing to do (or what I would do) is re-install the game and only the mods you are sure you want to use. I have done it in the past, although I make a lot of back-ups from the game's data folder, especially when installing game-changing mods I might not want to continue using. When not happy, I copy the saved back-up back to the main FO4 install folder (after having deleted the mod in question). It's a bit of a pain, but in the end it has saved me a lot of time and headache as deleting mods halfway through a game is never a good idea...

 

I can only say something about Mitch's dad as I also had that 'glitch' when doing the quest. The thing is you need to wait until he goes back to his home/settlement. At least, in my case, Mitch's dad appeared back at the settlement after a while and that's when the quest all of a sudden progressed...

[DansonDelta40]

Thanks for answering, I appreciate it!

 

I have got an addendum to my original post though. After continuing to play a little I can confirm now that every quest seems to be impossible to complete, no matter which one I start. Tried Vault 88, it got stuck after Clem's arrival. Tried "Take back the castle", it won't let me activate the radio tower after powering it. Even a 100 power generator seems to be inadequate to power it, as the power number in the workshop menu remains red. The radio tower has 100 power but cannot be activated.

 

No matter which quest I start, after a while it gets stuck and cannot advance.

 

In addition to that. settlement mode has become unplayable, because I cannot assign settlers to anything any more.

 

A clean install indeed seems to be the only option. Maybe I should wait until Nuka World is out and patched, though? All those problems only appeared after the latest update.

[TheGadget1945]

I have a slightly similar issue to your Far Harbor problem in that when I get a "Defend the Settlement" call I do everything I am supposed to but at the end there is no flag to show me who to talk to. After one or two game days the flag finally appears and I can complete the mission.